Kobalt

Job Title: Assistant, Client Services & Copyright Department: Copyright Location: Hong Kong In Office Working: 5 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role As a Client Services & Copyright Assistant, you will be part of an international team responsible for managing Kobalt’s global song registration process. You’ll support the accurate registration of repertoire across East and South-East Asia, ensuring royalties flow correctly to our clients when their music is performed, broadcast, or streamed. This role is ideal for someone with strong administrative and operational experience, a proactive mindset, and a genuine interest in music publishing, data, and systems. You’ll work across multiple time zones, collaborating with global teams to support efficient and accurate catalogue management. What You’ll Do You collaborate across time zones with London and US-based Copyright teams, supporting song registration and conflict resolution processes You...

Job Title: Senior Director, Corporate Finance Department: Corporate Finance Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role We are hiring a Senior Director, Corporate Finance in London to support all of Kobalt’s business units. This FP&A position will be part of the global Corporate Finance team and report to the EVP, Corporate Finance. You will help to drive the business through regular forecasting and analysis with a focus on revenue – creating and developing financial models, providing insight into revenue performance, and carrying out ad-hoc analyses for senior management. What You’ll Do Take full ownership of the multi-year (5-year) financial models, incorporating multi-entity and multi-currency scenario planning. You continuously drive improvement in modelling and forecasting, including building/refining model logic and assumptions while operating across multiple systems You carry out analyses to inform,...

The Role  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Affairs Assistant to join Kobalt’s Business Affairs team in our New York office. The role will entail supporting and assisting the more senior lawyers in the business affairs team working across the company’s three divisions, Music Publishing. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to enter the music industry and over time to learn and develop. Kobalt is the leading technology-powered music services company, offering end-to-end solutions for artists, songwriters, labels and publishing companies. Through Kobalt technology and services, creators benefit from more money, better reporting, and maintain ownership and control over how their work is distributed, tracked, collected, and monetized. With the award-winning Kobalt desktop portal and app, Kobalt clients get real-time insight into their work and activity. Working at Kobalt, and this role will help build the music services company of...

Job Title: AI & Automation Analyst Reporting To: Richard Darbon Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role As an AI & Automation Analyst, you will play a key role in driving innovation across Operations at Kobalt. You’ll support the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions, helping to improve workflows, reduce manual processes, and enhance efficiency at scale. This role is ideal for someone early in their career with a strong curiosity for AI and automation. You’ll act as a bridge between emerging technologies and day-to-day operations, using your technical aptitude and problem-solving mindset to build intelligent workflows and support operational transformation. What You’ll Do You explore and test AI tools, platforms, and models, piloting solutions against real-world operational challenges You support the design and development of automated workflows to streamline manual and data-intensive...

The Role We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Staff Accountant to join our Finance team in New York. This role plays an important part in supporting the accuracy and transparency of Kobalt’s financial reporting and operational processes. You’ll be involved in month-end close activities, reconciliations, and supporting audits, while working closely with the Senior Accountant and wider Finance team. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong accounting foundation who is looking to develop their skills in a fast-paced, international music company. You’ll gain exposure to core accounting processes and contribute to continuous improvements as you build your experience within the team. What You’ll Do Support the month-end close process for the Corporate business unit, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of key deliverables. Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist in resolving discrepancies. Partner with teams such as FP&A and P&C to support...

Job Title: Senior Manager, Accounting Department: Finance Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role As a Senior Manager, Accounting, you will play a key role within our global Finance team, supporting the financial operations of our publishing business. You’ll oversee core accounting processes including balance sheet reconciliations and month-end close, while ensuring accuracy, consistency, and strong financial controls. This role is suited to someone who combines technical accounting expertise with strong interpersonal skills and a proactive mindset. You’ll manage and develop a small team, contribute to process improvements, and work cross-functionally to support audits, reporting, and wider business initiatives. What You’ll Do You oversee balance sheet reconciliations and monthly and quarterly close processes, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery You prepare and review journal entries, balance sheets, and...

About Us KOSIGN is a recently-launched business within Kobalt Music Group, built to deliver premium global music publishing administration for today’s most independent and forward-thinking songwriters, producers, and artists. Developed by the team behind Kobalt’s industry-leading infrastructure - trusted by Max Martin, Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, Paul McCartney, and more - KOSIGN brings transparency, flexibility, and control to the publishing process. We’ve built a modern platform tailored to artists and producers who want to stay in control and move fast. The Opportunity KOSIGN is looking for a Director of Marketing & Growth to lead our global market presence. This is a high-impact role designed for a strategic quarterback - someone who can build a world-class brand narrative while ensuring that every campaign, social post, and industry activation drives measurable business growth. You will act as a hands-on, creative-meets-analytical leader connecting KOSIGN's...

The Role Kobalt Music Publishing is hiring a Director, Contract Administration to lead our global Contract Administration team. This role requires strong leadership, people management, and communication skills, as well as a strategic mindset to drive process improvements and scalability. Reporting to the VP, Core Administration Services, you will oversee the end-to-end onboarding, ensuring contracts and works are accurately ingested—whether through manual entry or large data set formats such as CWR v2.2, CWR v2.1, catalogue shipment, CIF, and .csv. You will also play a key role in workload management, capacity tracking, and optimizing team resources, providing critical insights to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. The successful candidate is a proactive and adaptable leader with experience managing high-performing teams through change with evolving priorities. You are a natural communicator, a problem solver, and a strategic thinker who thrives in fast-paced...

The Role Kobalt is seeking a senior, market facing executive to lead the Creative Synch team in New York and across the U.S. East Coast. This role sits at the intersection of creative vision and commercial execution, responsible for driving synch revenue while positioning Kobalt as a best-in-class partner in the advertising space. Reporting to the SVP, Global Creative Synch, the VP will serve as a strategic leader within the U.S. advertising market, owning key client relationships, clearing deals, and collaborating cross-functionally to maximize opportunities across Kobalt’s global publishing catalogue. This is a senior leadership role for someone with deep industry relationships, sharp commercial instincts, and a track record of closing meaningful, market-shaping deals. What You’ll Do Creative Pitching & Deal Execution: Handle creative pitching of the Kobalt Music Publishing catalogue across advertising. Lead high-level creative pitching initiatives, ensuring Kobalt’s...

The Role We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Accountant to join our Finance team in New York. This role plays a key part in ensuring accuracy, transparency, and operational integrity across Kobalt’s financial reporting and corporate accounting processes. You will be responsible for managing key elements of the month-end close, payroll accounting, reconciliations, and statutory reporting, while supporting audit readiness and driving continuous process improvement. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to deepen their technical expertise and step into a leadership capacity by mentoring and developing junior team members within a fast-paced, global music company. What You’ll Do Own and oversee the month-end close process for the Corporate business unit, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery. Manage the US payroll accounting process in partnership with People & Culture, ensuring compliance and issue resolution. Partner closely with...